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Zoom Video Communications (ZM) Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Kelcey McKinley -- Event Consultant Hello, everyone, and welcome to Zoom's Q3 FY '25 earnings release webinar. Kelcey McKinley -- Event Consultant Thank you so much, Michelle. As a reminder, today's webinar is being recorded. Thank you very much.

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The Evolving Playbook: Expert-Led Operational Enhancements in Private Equity

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Over the years, private equity has shifted from a focus on leverage and financial engineering to an ever-increasing emphasis on creating value through operational improvements within their portfolio companies. This shift includes enhancing management practices, investing in technology upgrades, and creating new sources of revenue.

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AlbaCore secures $1.8bn for Senior Direct Lending launch backed by ADIA and Mitsubishi UFJ Trust

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Leveraging its deep expertise in credit and bottom-up fundamental analysis, AlbaCore aims to deliver strong downside protection and attractive risk-adjusted returns. Founded in 2016, London-based AlbaCore manages $9bn in assets on behalf of global pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, consultants, family offices, and endowments.

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IBM's Artificial-Intelligence Business Is Booming

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The company's secret weapon is its consulting business. Consulting is a core driver of our value proposition for clients," said IBM CEO Arvind Krishna in the fourth-quarter earnings call. Software drove just one-third of this business, with consulting signings driving the remaining two-thirds. This makes sense.

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International Business Machines (IBM) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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We had strong performance in software and infrastructure above our model as investment in innovation is yielding organic growth, while consulting remained below model. As we stated last quarter, factors such as interest rates and inflation impacted timing of decision making and discretionary spend in consulting.

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Carnival Corp. (CCL) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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In under two years, we have paid down over $8 billion of debt off our peak and significantly reduced interest expense, which, coupled with our improving EBITDA, has improved our leverage metrics tremendously. times net debt to EBITDA, closing in on our expectation to reach investment-grade leverage metrics in 2026. We achieved a 4.3

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Linden Closes $400 Million Structured Capital Fund

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Chicago-based Linden Capital Partners is focused exclusively on leveraged buyouts in the healthcare and life science industries, with a specific interest in medical products, specialty distribution, pharmaceutical, and services segments of healthcare.

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